Sociolinguistics
Scope Note
Differentiation in styles (e.g., conversational, narrative, rhetorical); stylistic modifications in phonology, grammar, and vocabulary; styles typed according to gender, age, status, and social context, euphemisms and metaphorical usages; profanity; etc.
History Note
The term was changed from "Stylistics" to "Sociolinguistics" in 1997.
- Broader Term
- 190 Language
- Related Terms
- 530 Art
- 533 Music
- 560 Social Stratification
- 576 Etiquette
- 784 Avoidance And Taboo
- 789 Magic
- 831 Sexuality
- Use Fors
- Age differences (linguistic styles)
- Alliteration (style of speaking)
- Baby talk
- Code switching (sociolinguistics)
- Discourse (language in use)
- Ethnolinguistics
- Euphemisms
- Falsetto (speaking)
- Honorifics (use in language)
- Linguistic styles (age differentiation)
- Linguistic stylistics
- Metaphors in language
- Oaths (profane as a style of language)
- Profanity
- Rhetorical style (sociolinguistics)
- Trope (figure of speech)
- Identifier
- 195
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